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By: WCAX News Team; WCAX Sen. Bernie Sanders will join Vermont state leaders Monday to discuss the nursing workforce crisis. Sanders will join Gov. Phil Scott, Senate President Becca Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski on the Statehouse steps at 10 a.m. Monday. Even before COVID-19, it was estimated that Vermont should add around 9,000 nurses to the workforce in

By: Chris Isidore; CNN Warren Buffett, the ninth-richest person on the planet, says it’s not up to him to settle a strike by 450 steelworkers at a company he owns. Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, requesting that he intervene in a United Steelworkers union strike at the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia. They’ve

By: Sharon Zhang; Truthout As labor advocates hail 2021 as the “year of the worker,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is encouraging workers to maintain the momentum by using their collective leverage to organize. On Wednesday, Sanders issued a warning to corporations and executives on Twitter. “For the ruling class, greed is a religion. They will cut back on workers’ wages,

By: Vermont News & Media & The Associated Press; Bennington Banner On the same day the Vermont delegation to Congress panned the U.S. Postal Service for its failures in Vermont, the state’s longtime independent stalwart Sen. Bernie Sanders further called for the immediate resignation of the postmaster general. “Given the serious crisis and total failure of leadership at the United

By: Brendan Cole; Newsweek Senator Bernie Sanders has accused the two Democratic lawmakers who are holding up the Build Back Better bill of “arrogance.” In an MSNBC interview, the Vermont independent appeared angered by the resistance of Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to the massive $1.75 trillion social care package the Biden administration is trying to pass. The legislation—which requires all 50 senators

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding a virtual AARP town meeting on Wednesday. Sanders is holding the virtual meeting instead of his regular, in-person holiday events where he eats food and chats with seniors. He’s inviting older Vermonters to join him at 4 p.m. to talk about the issues affecting them like the cost of prescription